200 EFT Tapping Statements for Positive Thinking vs Positive Avoidance

By: Tessa Cason

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Tessa established a life coaching practice in 1996, when life coaching was in its infancy. After several years, she realized that desire, exploration, and awareness did not equate to change and transformation for her clients.

Exploring the underlying cause of their pain, knowing their motivation to change, and defining who they wanted to become, did not create the changes in the lives of her clients they desired.

Her livelihood depended on the success of her clients. She realized she needed a tool, technique, or method to aid them in dealing with their emotional issues. She knew she needed a tool to change the limiting beliefs.

She visited a friend who managed a bookstore and told her of my dilemma. She reached for a book, “People have been raving about this book on EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique.”

As she read the book and discovered that EFT was tapping our heads, she was unsure if this was the tool that would help my clients. She had some adventurous clients whom she taught how to tap. When every single client returned for their next appointment and shared how different their lives had been that week because of tapping, she took notice! She was intrigued.

She soon realized she found the right tool to change limiting beliefs!

As a life coach, working with hundred of clients one-on-one, day after day, she learned how to effectively utilize tapping. She learned that clearing an emotional memory was different from clearing beliefs. She learned for EFT Tapping to work, we needed to find and address the underlying cause of an issue.

EFT Tapping is a simple, yet highly effective tool to heal our issues by addressing the cause and not just the symptoms. Healing the symptoms does not heal the underlying cause.

Clients started asking for tapping homework. She wrote out statements for them to tap. Soon, she had a library of tapping statements on different emotional issues. Tapping statements are the words we say as we tap. Tapping statements can be combined to make tapping scripts.

Positive Thinking:
* Is the act of thinking good or affirmative thoughts.
* Finding the silver lining around a dark cloud.
* Is looking on the more favorable side of an event or condition.

Positive Avoidance:
* Denying the existence of a problem when a problem exists.
* An unwillingness to acknowledge anything that is painful.
* Pretending that a situation isn’t a concern when it truly is.

Positive Thinking is NOT
* Denial.
* Avoidance.
* False Optimism.

Positive Avoidance is:
* A defense mechanism to avoid the existence of the problem or reality.
* Putting our heads in the sand when there is a problem.
* A way in which to escape unpleasantness.
* Numbing emotional pain.
* Pretending to think one thing but in reality thinking another.
* Trying to make an unfortunate situation go away by pretending it isn’t there or by thinking happy.

Sometimes it is just “easier” to think positive when we really don’t want to look at an issue.

Whether it be anger, shame, or grief that we are feeling, when we tell ourselves to just “think positive,” it could be that we are wanting to avoid or bypass looking at a part of ourselves that we might be ignoring and needs healing. When we try to push down our negative emotions, it is like trying to push a ball underwater. The ball pops back up.

In a sense, Positive Avoidance is denying the truth of a situation. It is a denial of our experience and our feelings about the situation. If we keep piling more and more Band-Aids over a wound, the wound is still there. At some point, the wound needs to be examined, cleaned, and treated for healing to occur.

We cannot change our lives until we are able to recognize, acknowledge, and take ownership of that which we want to change. Then the limiting beliefs need to be deleted. EFT can help.